Yogi Saputra Mahmud, 2015
STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN RETELLING PAST EXPERIENCE: A Case Study at One Private Junior High School in Bandung
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1.2 Research Questions
As exemplified on the previous section, the current research aims to analyze the students’ difficulties in retelling past experience based on text organization and
linguistic features along with the possible causes of the students’ difficulties.
Therefore, the researcher of the present research raised the following research questions:
1. What are the students’ difficulties in retelling past experience?
2. What are the possible causes of the students’ difficulties?
1.3 Aims of the Research
In the light of the preceding discussion, this research aimed to: 1.
Discover the students’ difficulties in retelling past experience based on the analysis of text organization and linguistic features.
2. Discover the possible causes of students’ difficulties based on teacher and
students’ perspective.
1.4 Scope of the Research
This present research covers the analysis of students’ difficulties in retelling past experience and the possible causes of the students’ difficulties. To discover the
students’ difficulties, the current research attempted to analyze the organization of
st udents’ text, linguistic features and grammar. The researcher employed the
theory of recount text organization proposed by Emilia 2011 to analyze organization of students’ text, transitivity of Systemic Functional Grammar by
Halliday 1994 to analyze linguistic features of the text and surface strategy taxonomy proposed by Dulay, Burt and Krashen 1982 to categorize the
grammatical errors found in the students’ story. Besides analyzing the difficulties,
Yogi Saputra Mahmud, 2015
STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN RETELLING PAST EXPERIENCE: A Case Study at One Private Junior High School in Bandung
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia |
\.upi.edu perpustakaan.upi.edu
the current research also attempted to discover th e possible causes of students’
errors, which were analyzed by conducting interview with English teacher and the students.
The result of the research cannot be generalized for all levels of learners. However, the result can still be useful for researchers who would like to conduct
such research for different level of learners. The research participants are also limited with seventh grade students in a private bilingual school in Bandung.
Different geographical and learning context settings may also lead to different result of the research.
1.5 Significance of the Research
